alt.internet.search-engines

"BobK" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have some PHP Includes on my site. The Include data comes from
> another site and are written with a Transitional Doc Type. So the
> results have all of the
's shown as
.

Sounds more like XHTML.

> But my site is Strict 4.01 and I get validation errors for all the
> />'s.
>
> Is there a way to convert all the
's to
's?

Yes: post-process the data in PHP. This means that instead of including
the data you have to download it and post-process it with a search &
replace. This is not 100% fail-safe though. The best way would be to parse
the XHTML (which is XML), and then convert it to HTML 4.01 strict. On the
other hand, that might be overkill.

> Can you put
> something in the .htaccess file or somewhere to force a conversion?

No.

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